Quickly learn Adobe Illustrator CC with your existing Photoshop skills. Master tools, create vector illustrations, and enhance your graphic design capabilities in just 35 lectures.
This course helps Photoshop users dive into Illustrator CC quickly. With over 35 lectures, you'll learn to create vector illustrations, utilize tools, and finish with a cool piece of vector art, all while building on your existing skills.
Get up and running fast in Illustrator CC by harnessing the knowledge you have from working in Photoshop.
Learn tools, features and techniques to create vector illustrations using Adobe Illustrator - the graphic industry's premier software application.
Take your existing Photoshop knowledge and use it to quick start learning Illustrator.
Avoid going over information that you already know and get to grips quickly with what is new to you in Illustrator.
Learn and master Illustrator
Vector shapes
Shape Creation tools
Type Effects
Repeating Patterns
Blends
Textures
A Powerful New Skill for your Creative arsenal
Learning Illustrator is your entry ticket to the world of graphic design. Illustrator is the industry standard application for Mac and PC. Knowing Illustrator will prepare you for working in the field of graphic design. Using it you can turn your art into scalable shapes, make salable vector stock and design anything from fabric to infographics.
Combined with your existing knowledge of Photoshop your new Illustrator skills can open up a world of creative opportunity and job prospects.
Content and Overview
Suitable for Photoshop users this course of 35 lectures and over 3 hours of content, gets you up and running with Illustrator. Many lectures close with exercises for you to practice what you learned in that lecture.
Starting with the similarities and differences between Illustrator and Photoshop you'll progress quickly to creating complex vector shapes from simple shapes. You'll learn to edit and combine shapes and get familiar with the range of tools for creating and editing shapes.
You will learn how to color and recolor your art, create and style type, and paint with vector paint brushes. Advanced topics such as pattern making, tracing bitmaps, and creating blended shapes are covered.
You will finish the course making a piece of vector art.
When you complete this course you will have a solid grounding in using Illustrator and the ability to create vector artwork for yourself or for work.
Harness your Photoshop skills to help you learn to use Illustrator faster
Be able to choose the right tool for the task when creating designs in Illustrator
Create cool designs without having to master the Pen tool
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Helen Bradley is an expatriate Australian, designer, and educator. She specializes in teaching graphic design using Adobe Illustrator, Procreate 5X, and Adobe Photoshop. She also teaches photo-editing with Lightroom and Photoshop. Helen has taught hundreds of thousands of students world wide and she is recognized as a skilled trainer who "knows her stuff" and who is able to communicate even...
Very happy with instruction. I don’t find it too slow or too fast.
Not sure yet
Awesome
Fantastic instructor and course for anyone who knows absolutely nothing about Illustrator or where to begin in the application.
This course is great!! I use Photoshop a lot so learning how to use Illustrator whilst incorporating Photoshop will be very useful for all sorts of projects, both personal and commercial.
So far everything is very easy to understand.
Absolutely outstanding! What an amazing course and a fantastic teacher- Helen your talent for teaching in perfect
Perfect introduction to illustrator for us photoshop veterans!
I really like the way Helen explains things. This last video on the Pathfinder tool was excellent with the graphic shown of how each option operates and what you get. I am going to work on this and keep a copy of it as a cheat sheet in my notebook.
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Vipul S. S.
Specialties of so many basic functions of Illustrator (in compare to Photoshop) is explained in a simplified way in this course.